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Originally posted by ChrisF231
Reminds me of all those Blacks and Hispanics on welfare who spend all their welfare money on iPhone 4s, top of the line Escalades complete with all the "bling", etc and then complain they have no food, they can't pay their rent, and so forth ...
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
it must be tough to live in a materialistic reality TV based culture, and have nothing. I am eeking out a middle class living, get collections calls every month, but I have 2 cars, a roof, and movie money on the weekends
they are using strength in numbers. I am NOT condoning the actions, but if I was 15, poor and full of rage against the machine, I could probably get talked into doing this
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Originally posted by SaturnFX
Not excusing the behavior at all...frankly, I should have been caught and slapped...just saying, it is not some unusual and new quality emerging from people..just a slightly different method caught on film
Being as your from New York I seriously doubt that you will, New Yorkers have been known to disappear around here. I work in the worst parts of Birmingham every day. I remodel rental houses mostly section eight houses. These young blacks have been taught that they are owed something. The black churches and organizations such as the naacp teach them how to work the system to get more and more for free..cause we have been oppressed...lol give me a break. A black person nowadays has a better chance at getting a civil service job or a government job than does a white man. Here all that works for the state is blacks. Thats why these young people do this because they think they are owed something. they shouldnt have to work for what they want just steal it its owed to me !
Originally posted by mntnhooger
i hope to NEVER meet you in real life
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Not excusing the behavior at all...frankly, I should have been caught and slapped...just saying, it is not some unusual and new quality emerging from people..just a slightly different method caught on film
I half agree. Kids do have the desire to steal stuff, and they sometimes act on it. I disagree that this is just a different method of "same old same old."
Maybe it is though. Maybe I am just projecting my way of thinking onto people without justification for doing so. I was raised and many of the people I know were raised not to take things that arent yours, period. Even if you knew you would not get caught. If someone gives me too much change, and even if the ATM machine kicks me an extra $20, I give it back. I dont keep it.
Maybe most people really arent like that. It sure didnt seem that way to me growing up. I knew people like that, (who would steal if they thought they would not get caught) but the majority of people I knew were not like that. The majority of people I knew and grew up with, especially the adults, didnt steal for internal reasons, not out of fear of getting caught.edit on 28-6-2011 by Illusionsaregrander because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by eldiablo2
i agree 100% BLACK teens, why hide the truth with politically correct b.s.?thats one of the many things wrong with america, its a fact look at the fbi crime stats!look at the prison population,when are we gonna take a stand against this p.c. garbage,crime will continue if we keep looking the other way!
Originally posted by rcanem
reply to post by Scoriada
The last guy in line was white. Just pointing that out.